Two Companions

The book for this week's review is Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesay. The story centers on Eva, a young Scottish girl who mother dies during Eva's birth and she is raised by her father and his sister. When Eva turns six, she begins to see these two companions, an old woman and a young girl, who profoundly help shape Eva's life adding both positive and negative influences in her life. The companions allow for a novel that mixes the possibility of supernatural/external forces that effects choices the we make and our own internal forces or the question of free will. The prose is beautifully written and the plot is both heartbreaking and life affirming. I can't recommend this book highly enough as it is thought-provoking and memorable.